The Cricket Thread

32 runs off the PP. Just shows it’s not all it’s cracked up to be! And nice atmosphere tonight (of course).

 

Sunday is going to be a cracker. Great tester for us against the standout front runner. #Passportready

 

Gloucs-Glamorgan getting washed out would be a bonus for us. It's a banker home win on paper.

 

Clark and Pope rested, in addition to no Topley, Roy or Curran x 2.

It'll still be a strong Surrey side though. But not as ridiculously strong as it could have been.

 

Shame our 2 “missing games” are vs 2 of the present bottom 4. Haven’t looked at all the fixtures but that might be advantageous to some of the other top sides.

 

Four gone conclusion?

 

94 - 6, not what we needed!

 

Keeping my fingers x’d this is a dodgy wicket. Bit of extra bounce but Don’t think so.

 

Don't think we need two spinners! They will probably get the runs off Mason!

 

151 - 7 Fuller did well.

 

Jacks hit!

 

Doing ok until Pollard came in

 

Closer than I thought.

 

Ok we lost but importantly our NRR didn't take a pounding. I can live with that.

 

Somerset beat Essex. Middlesex beat Kent. Glamorgan beat Sussex

 

Good to see a pitch with some pace in it. The problem is that suited Surrey's bowling attack far more than our own.

Nevertheless, I thought that was pretty much top-end from us with that bat. Generally, despite the regular loss of wickets, I didn't have any problem with our batting. Only thing that comes to mind is that I'm still unsure about Prest coming in so early in the PP. Those 36 balls are precious, and he generally chews up too many of them. Now that isn't a problem if he (and the team as a whole) then pushes on - Kent being a perfect example. But it's asking a lot to do that regularly, especially for someone so young.

(That said, we got super lucky with that horror drop of Fuller by Overton.)

Pleased with how we hung in there with the ball. By taking it to the last over, our NRR has barely decreased. That could have been so much worse. Without Joe's great catch, Pollard could have won that with two or three overs left - and that really would have hurt our NRR.

Sussex losing today completely finishes them off. Despite Middlesex and Glamorgan winning, I still don't fear either of them getting into the top four. And despite Essex losing, they have enough nice looking fixtures to mean that they should get over the line. So quite possibly we're looking at a straight shoot out between us and Gloucs. With both matches still to play, we can't afford to lose them both - and possibly need to win both.

 

I'll be booking a ticket and sorting the travel to Amstelveen for the last of the ODIs in the Netherlands there will be beer, chips and mayonnaise.

 

I honestly can't envisage Surrey losing a match in this year's competition, their strength in depth is just ridiculous.

 

Fingers crossed England get to bat first!

 

500 up!